buddhism/chat_june-2021

u/danl999:
Don't agree with us.

See it for yourself.

This isn't a religion. There's no "beliefs" required. In fact, those only hold you back.

99% of the Castaneda population is drowning in their beliefs. I'm afraid they'll never escape.

The Buddhist community is a case where they potentially have the same magic we do. Or could have it.

But they never will. Their beliefs put a strict limit on what they are allowed to perceive.

It's more profitable for the leaders with those restrictions.

[username withheld for privacy]:
yes, I'm currently struggling with paying attention to phenomena during darkroom practice. I didn't realize I was ignoring so much, because I was told to.
(Buddhist here)

u/danl999:
Buddhists: Did you see the only 2 other places on the internet, where magic is discussed openly, in the context of teaching people to do it themselves?
If there's another, no one has pointed me to it. And there's 3500 people in here.

(On) Shinzen Young, the Zen master. Here he tells you, shutting off the internal dialogue is the same as Zen enlightenment. So you cant' waste your time to learn that!:

- Here Shinzen has a fairy standing on his hand, but because he's a Buddhist, he makes fun of it. I had a fairy for years, she was the best friend I ever had!

- Here's the other place with open discussion of magic. This is Daniel Ingram, a Dzogchen master. He discusses demons here:

- Here he asks if you want to live in a world with magic, and somewhere else likely in there, he insists if there's no magic, you are NOT enlightened.

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So Buddhists! You didn't leave Buddhism. Buddhism left you (for cash).

[username withheld for privacy]:
I do believe magical Buddhism is linked into the Dzogchen of Tibetans but the ones that know ain't telling. They barely give you anything. The ones that try struggle in translation. The topic is soooo enormous and vast that most people who follow Buddhism don't really even realize they are only seeing about 2% of it and they think they know a lot about it. The guatama Buddha himself spoke of the universal eye where you can go anywhere in the universe to anytime and learn anything but, how often do you hear them talk about that? In fact how often do you even hear any of them speak of the wondrous things in detail that have experienced in meditation. I learned a lot from it but, as you can see I am here now.

u/danl999:
Keep in mind, the Buddha was merely a decent sorcerer.

With a bad understanding based n Hinduism.

So he was very confused, but since he could do real magic, he became too popular for his own good.

u/danl999:
Buddhists are hard to understand. They have magic, but they're religious anyway.
They get very angry if you contradict their beliefs, and become irrational.

from June 2021 Public Chat Log

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